getting past my dialup provider's ns

timothy at erinet.com timothy at erinet.com
Thu Oct 21 23:27:01 UTC 1999


> I manage a couple of web servers via a dialup connection. When making
> dns changes it's easy enough to check every thing out with nslookup from
> either of the servers. But it takes up to 3 days before I can reach the
> account by name - I'm guessing this is due to my dialup's nameservers.
> It would be nice if I could find a way to access a web site right away,
> rather than using a remote server to access the site via telnet.
> Unfortunately all the sites are name based virtual hosts, running on a
> handfull of ip#'s. Any suggestions?

Change your local DNS servers to not use your dialup provider?  However, if
they are new domains, it usually takes a few days for NetSol to process it
into the root zones.

cheers,

tim


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